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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
Samuel Johnson
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Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
Samuel Johnson
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A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.
John Florio
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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
Noah Webster
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If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
Adoniram Judson
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Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
Ben Zimmer
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Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.
Samuel Johnson
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The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Samuel Johnson
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To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
Samuel Johnson
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In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Pierre Bayle
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Samuel Johnson
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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Samuel Johnson
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
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All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.
Samuel Johnson
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson
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In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
Jesse Sheidlower
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Samuel Johnson
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By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.
Lin Yutang
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Samuel Johnson
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
Samuel Johnson
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